Geckos (with the help of Jim White and Paul Fonfara)

Docent Testimony (with the help of Jim White and Paul Fonfara)

Emery Blagdon (with the help of Jim White and Paul Fonfara)

Moving On by Jim White & Paul Fonfara

She Roam by Jim White and Paul Fonfara

DIAMONDS ON HIS TEETH
2016
Audio recording 
4:35 minutes
Courtesy of Jennifer Joy Jameson, MS

McComb’s Dr. Jimmy McDonald is the dentist who made Loy Bowlin’s glittering dentures a reality, an event that became central to Bowlin’s identity as the Original Rhinestone Cowboy. Hear how this sparkling collaboration came to be. This audio story is set to the “The Rhinestone Man” from Bowlin’s Talking and Laughing King cassette tapes. 

—Jennifer Joy Jameson, 2017

AUDIO STORY - Diamonds On His Teeth (Glitter 1)

MAKE YOU AN OUTFIT
2016
Audio recording
4:51 minutes 
Courtesy of Jennifer Joy Jameson

Hear New Orleans photojournalist Sandy Maillho, former chief staff photographer at the McComb Enterprise-Journal, and artist and musician Dub Brock (who performs only on rare occasions for a cult audience under the name Bobby Lounge) talk about the influence Loy Bowlin had on the creative community in 1980s McComb, MS. The story is set to the “The American Dream” from Bowlin’s Talking and Laughing King cassette tape.

—Jennifer Joy Jameson, 2017

AUDIO STORY - Make You An Outfit

THE MIRACLE CAR
2016
Audio recording
4:23 minutes 
Courtesy of Jennifer Joy Jameson

In this audio story, hear McComb community members Gregg Harbison, Dub Brock, and Saul Maurer, and Bowlin family members Neil Randall and Gary Bowlin share memories and local lore about Loy Bowlin’s penchant for personalizing anything he could get his hands on—especially a car.This story is set to a harmonica tune performed by Bowlin, “The Answer to the Hodie Odie Blues” from his Talking and Laughing King cassette tapes. 

—Jennifer Joy Jameson, 2017

AUDIO STORY - The Miracle Car (Glitter 2)

THE ORIGINAL RHINESTONE COWBOY FOLK ART MUSEUM
2016
Audio recording
6:03 minutes 
Courtesy of Jennifer Joy Jameson, MS

This audio story considers the legacy of Loy Bowlin and his “Beautiful Holy Jewel Home”, both within and beyond McComb, MS. The story features an archival interview between McComb’s Paul Maurer, who painted the vignettes on Bowlin’s suits, and Loy Bowlin. Hear impressions from Maurer’s son and daughter, Saul and Christina, who collaborated with Bowlin and continue to advocate for his legacy. Sandy Maillho speaks about the late Sandi McGill’s several-year effort to establish an Original Rhinestone Cowboy Folk Art Museum in McComb prior to the Home’s move to Wisconsin. The story is set to the “The Beautiful Flower” from Bowlin’s Talking and Laughing King 
cassette tapes. 

—Jennifer Joy Jameson, 2017

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